California · Nonprofit
LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES
LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Latin-American Cinemateca of Los Angeles does
Mission
The organization is strongly committed to the cultivation of cultural expression and exchange amoung filmmakers, educators, students and community members of diverse backgrounds with year-round programming of classic, contemporary and experimental latinx and latin-american cinema, and a student film festival of works created by inner-city middle high school students.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Sponsored, promoted and produced 2 special event viewings of latin-american and usa latinx films. Attendance at the 2 events exceeded 150 individuals. All programs were announced on the latin american cinemateca of los angeles website, and email announcements were sent to all who are on the organizations's mailing list. The organization's purpose is to promote social welfare by increasing an understanding of latin-american and usa latinx culture as expressed in the moving image from its earliest development to the present.
$17,471 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,471.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $36k to $14k (−61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Maria Lopez-Freeman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
59% of LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES?
- LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $135,000 in grants to LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES?
- HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LATIN-AMERICAN CINEMATECA OF LOS ANGELES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing